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Win Two Tickets to the 15th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour

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Garden Design, Gardening, Native Plants
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...ns (including our neighbor Lora’s house!). If you’re thinking of including native plants in your garden or pondering a garden re-design, the Theodore Payne Garden Tour is a great way to get ideas. To enter our contest leave a comment on this post naming your favorite native plant. Please make sure to enter your email in the comment form (your email will not be published nor used for anything else other than contacting you to send the tickets). We’...

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Front Yard Update: Welcome to Crazy Town

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Back to the Garden, front yard series, Gardening
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...ardoons are technically invasive plants and one of the bêtes noires of the native plant folks. I doubt we’ll ever be on a native plant garden tour with this monster crowning our so-called native landscape, but Erik loves, loves, loves this plant for inexplicable reasons, so I can’t take it out. The cardoon’s huge leaves are perpetually reaching out to overshade my natives, so I keep hacking them back (more make-work activity). However, I learned t...

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The Wonder of Worms

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Back to the Garden, Gardening, Vermiculture
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...at is. This got me wondering if there are other places where worms are not native, and where we should be careful. Clearly they are not native to desert regions, but I doubt they could survive outside of the artificial environment of the worm bin. But perhaps I speak to soon. Southern California, with its long annual dry cycle, also seemed to me to be a place where the earthworm could not be native, but in fact it turns out we have worms, lots of...

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